Fox Under My Cloak

The fifth volume of A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight , A Fox under My Cloak is set in the Great War from the Christmas 1914 Truce, when German and British soldiers fraternized and played football in No Man's Land, to the gas attacks of the Battle of Loos in 1915. It shows Phillip Maddison surviving in the face of terror. While home in England on sick leave he obtains his commission into a fashionable regiment, which has still not adapted to the sweeping changes of war, so that Phillip's social inadequacies make him the butt of his fellow officer's scorn. Yet alone among them Phillip has tasted the bleak reality of life, and death, on the Western Front.